I think this goes beyond where I expected you to advertise. It is putting clutter (spam) in the way of me being able to readily note things that need attention on my network. It also raises a concern about how much you can can peek & poke inside my network and where the security lines are drawn of when I am on your servers and when I am on mine when using your product. It all looks a bit fuzzy to me.

Please can you clearly state how you interacting and allay my security concerns.

Spiceworks does collect some anonymous, aggregated information that gives us statistics on the total number and type of assets being inventoried by Spiceworks. This helps us understand what types of networks Spiceworks is used in and helps us optimize the application to meet those needs. For eg: when we found the average size of a Spiceworks network was larger than the 250 devices we worked on improving performance & supporting more devices.

Spiceworks is installed locally behind your firewall and community information, updates and ads are delivered from our servers. Your domain information resides in your spiceworks installation and is not shared.

Here are some links that give more detailed information. Please let me know if you have further questions, I'm happy to help

TRUSTe - TRUSTe is a third-party seal program that provides oversight of its members' privacy practices and offers consumer dispute resolution. Members of TRUSTe must meet and maintain a minimum standard of privacy protection before they will be allowed to display a seal.